Despite it being the fourth Purim amidst the war, the Jews of Kharkov celebrated Purim in style, with hundreds of people of ...

Former Bay Area resident Jamie Marx is the cantor behind some of the most popular Purim spiels, used at hundreds of ...

For hundreds of years, the very idea of Jews rejoicing publicly was deemed offensive to Christians. The story was often ...

The festival of fun and frivolity has been harder for some Jews to celebrate in the wake of the destruction of Gaza.

Instead of giving my 13-year-old daughter a generational Hebrew name, a few years ago, while attending Hebrew School at ...

"2,500 years later an enemy of the Jewish people arose in that land. He, too, wants to destroy and annihilate the seed of the ...

At the center of the Purim story stands Mordechai, a leader who refuses to hide. While others in the royal court navigate political intrigue with careful diplomacy, Mordechai makes a different ...

In many ways, the Purim story exemplifies the history of Morocco’s Jews for more than two millennia: an ancient, all-powerful potentate controlling his loyal Jewish subjects’ fate. Morocco’s ...